Re: Wireless cards
From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 06/30/05
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:03:44 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
John Summerfied wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> John Summerfied wrote:
>>
>>> Justin Willmert wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I just found this list:
>>>>> http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html
>>>>> not FC4 specific but it's a place to start.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Try http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/. It provides a kernel
>>>> module so you can load windows drivers. It's how I got my wireless
>>>> lan card to work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please, don't buy a card based on its working with ndiswrapper.
>>> Instead, reward those vendors who help us by providing or helping
>>> with Linux support.
>>>
>>> A Windows driver could potentially do Bad Things to your system.
>>>
>> A Linux driver could potentially do Bad Things to your system. So?
>
>
> If you have a linux driver, you (probably) have the source and can fix
> it, hire someone to fix it etc etc just as with any other Linux software.
>
I was reacting to the implicit "But a Linux driver is a Good Thing(tm)".
I don't like the "Windows X is a Bad Thing(tm) but Linux X is a Good
Thing(tm)"
attitude so often manifested in Certain Circles.
>
>
>> IMO, the fewer fingers in the pie, generally, the better. Making drivers
>> from one OS try to run on another does not sound like a good idea to me.
>> Whether they be Windows or Linux or whatever is irrelevant.
>>
>>> What do you do if the Windows driver's broken? What do you suppose
>>> the vendor will do? Laugh?
>>>
>> In my experience, they fix it, and offer upgrades by free download
>> from their
>
> If it doesn't work under Linux? you gotta be joking.
Read the question I answered.
"What do you do if the Windows driver's broken?"
I did not see where that question has anything related to Linux in it.
It helps, when responding to e-mail, actually to read what is being
written in its context.
[snip]
Mike
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